Key takeaways
- Xbox Game Pass is losing five games on October 31, 2024.
- The next wave of XGP departures includes Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery, Headbangers: Rhythm Royale, Inculinati, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, and Mineko's Night Market.
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill boasts one of the longest Xbox Game Pass tenures of all third-party titles on the service, as it's been part of its library for half a decade by now.
Xbox Game Pass is losing Headbangers: Rhythm Royale and four other titles on October 31. These upcoming removals bring the total number of October 2024 Xbox Game Pass departures to 10.
The XGP library is typically compacted every two weeks, in the middle and at the end of each month. This happened most recently on October 15, when Xbox Game Pass lost a handful of titles F1 Manager 2023, Everspace 2And the game preview version Dyson Sphere program.
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The next five games will follow suit on October 31, when Microsoft's subscription list will disappear Frog Detective: The Whole Mystery, Headbangers: Rhythm Royale, Inculinati, Lonely Mountain: Downhilland Mineko's Night Market. This is a very different list of titles in terms of time spent in service, with two of its shorter periods being related. Headbangers: Rhythm Royale and Mineko's Night MarketBoth of them arrived on Xbox Game Pass in October 2023. Meanwhile, Lonely Mountain: Downhill It has been part of Microsoft's subscription library since October 2019 and will therefore celebrate its fifth anniversary on the service before it is removed.
Xbox Game Pass games are leaving on October 31, 2024
|
the game |
Platform(s) |
added |
OpenCritic average |
How long to beat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Frog Detective: The Whole Mystery |
Cloud, Console, PC |
October 2022 |
78 |
4 hours |
|
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale |
October 2023 |
68 |
3.5 hours |
|
|
Inkulinati (game preview) |
January 2023 |
79 |
8-16.5 hours |
|
|
Lonely Mountain: Downhill |
October 2019 |
81 |
6-34 hours |
|
|
Mineko's Night Market |
October 2023 |
68 |
17-37.5 hours |
Besides being the longest Xbox Game Pass stunt, Lonely Mountain: Downhill It's also the most critically acclaimed title from this upcoming wave of departures. In particular, the mountain biking game boasts a “strong” rating on OpenCritic, derived from an overall score of 81 and a 92% critic recommendation rate. It also has “very positive” user reviews on Steam based on over 2,200 player impressions. As such, Xbox Game Pass's selection of high-quality indie titles has been a boon since its first day on the service. Its sequel, Lonely Mountains: Snow RidersIt's currently targeting a late 2024 launch, but it's currently unclear if it plans to make it to the XGP library.
As usual, this upcoming batch of departures was announced alongside the next wave of Xbox Game Pass releases, which include a total of eight titles. Among them is the first South Park: Broken But WholeUbisoft's critically acclaimed RPG is set to hit the service later today, October 16. MechWarrior 5: Clans and Donut County Then arrives a day later, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and war zone Will debut on October 25th.
Ashen and the PC version Dead Island 2 The program is scheduled to follow on the 29th and 31st of the month respectively. The majority of the October 2024 Wave 2 lineup will be available exclusively through PC Game Pass and the final tier of the service, while only XGP Standard subscribers will gain access. Donut County, Ashenand South Park: Broken But Whole.
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